Monday May 5, Day 5: Bula, All is well and another pretty boring day. The main story today is the fickle weather. The NE winds came back. Since early morning the winds backed to NNE-ENE 8-14 kts and stayed in the quadrant for about 15 hours. E-ESE was predicted. This puts the wind and sea … Read More →

Sunday May 4, Day 4: Bula, That’s hello in Fijian…..Kathy has us practicing 🙂 ))) All is well…but…it finally happened…..weather not exactly as predicted. We saw in the morning consistent ENE 10-15 kts winds and a 4-6′ E swell with a 1-2′ wind chop. Pretty beamy for us, but the countercurrent was gone and we … Read More →

Saturday May 3, Day 3: All is well!!! Another trawler weather day….sweet. Conditions still are as predicted…winds were 8-13 kts SE-SSE in the am, calmed to light and variable <5 kts in the afternoon/evening and then built overnight to 8-12 kts primarily from the East. Seas built a little to about 4-7′ SE in the … Read More →

Friday May 2, Day 2: All is well and another good day!!! The winds have shifted to SE and are a little stronger…in the 8-13 kt range and the seas have built to 4-6′ SW swell but long periods….all still behind us….not a bad ride, just a little more rolly than yesterday, but no complaints!!!! … Read More →

Thursday May 1, Day 1: And they are off……off to Fiji!!!! Yesterday was one of those days where everything was just plain harder than it should have been…. Weather: Kathy and I had been studying the weather for many weeks now….looking for that ideal trawler like weather window….the calmest conditions possible. For a week now … Read More →

Hi, We are finally in Opua. This has been our goal to be here and stage for Fiji for a month or so and we finally made it. Mystic is in pretty good shape…..just need a few minor chores like changing the transmission fluid and some clean up and she is ready for her 6+ … Read More →

Hi All, Here is a more detailed description of all the work we did on Mystic Moon these past few months……and the list continues: Transmission: We decided to remove the transmission since we lost the transmission oil cooler on the way to New Zealand from Tonga at the end of last season. This was the … Read More →

Tuesday April 15, 2014: This post is several days late as we have been very busy and just now getting some time to work on the blog!! Did you hear us whining half way across the world? We got spanked hard the other day…..from Great Barrier Island to Marsden…..supposed to be 15-20G25 kts, seas 3-5′ … Read More →

Hi All, Saturday April 12, 2014: WE DID IT!!!!!! We have left Auckland…..FINALLY!!!!!! We were in Auckland almost 6 weeks (about 2 weeks more than planned)….2 weeks were for pleasure as we went to the Fiordlands on Ian and Agi Graham’s boat, m/v Corybas, a Selene 57 and also Queenstown while we were in South … Read More →